Author: Margaret Roberts

12th Today in 1928 the IX Summer Olympic Games closed in Amsterdam On this day at the 1936 Games,...

5th In 1901 Peter O’Connor of Ireland, sets the first officially recognised world long jump...

29th The most famous bowls match in history took place on this day in 1588, or so legend has it....

22nd Cosmo Duff-Gordon, was born on this day in 1862.  A prominent Scottish landowner and...

15th On this day in 1815 the first flat horse race was held at an English race track – Cheltenham...